378 thoughts on “Unshowwwww 76”

“A group of enterprising and rather creative garbage men out of Hamburg, Germany have blended work with artistic expression by converting dumpsters into giant pinhole cameras, dubbed the Trashcam Project. The method is pretty straightforward: by drilling a small hole on one side of the dumpster, an image is projected onto a giant sheet of photo paper suspended inside. Each shot takes about an hour to capture and its then developed in their special lab.”

Speaking of “cat’s puke and smell of peanuts”, my supervisor is going out of their way to put the micro in management. How’s the project coming, well I’ve made five minutes of progress since the last time you asked me.

LOL
I DO feel your pain.
I once posted a sign beside me at work that said “It’s going fine.”
My manager was actually pretty offended on her next 5 minute pop-in.
She turned around and huffed out but at least she didn’t ask that question AGAIN.

Apparently, the main person who is to train me is actually not in today, that’s why I’m sitting on my butt bored out of my wits. With luck, he’ll be in tomorrow. Otherwise it’s really going to be a wasted week.

Unfortunately, I really will be on Ontario time from now on. One of the new reports I’ll be doing has be be done between 2 and 3pm Ontario time. That’s noon and 1pm my time. No more lunches with friends. Now it will be brunches only.

It’s funny, the science centre in Calgay had a rather large and good titanic exabitiom a couple of years a go. When hubby and I went, at the beginning of the tour you were given a ticket with the name and bio of an actual passenger. At the end, you looked on a giant board to see if your person lived or died (I lived, John died as an aside). I jokingly asked the guide, hoe many people ask where Rose and Jack were on the list of passengers. Her answer was a sad sigh followed by, “too many”

I’ll be doing a lot of traveling in May. The plan is to go to the MMMMMMMeetup, come home, wait a week, then go to Omaha to visit old friends (and explore the possibility of launching a career) from May 13-20. It’ll be tiring, but exciting, and I’m looking forward to it.

Here I am, playing the waiting game again. My boss said if that happened it would be ok for me to pull out my ipad. However, there are some bigwigs here from head office US so I still feel self concious doing that.

The guy who’s training me is named Sean. He’s tall, blond and geeky looking. My daughter’s boyfriend is Shaun, who is tall, blond and geeky looking. While they don’t look exactly alike, they could pass as brothers. It’s very strange.

I got an e-mail this morning (while I was at my hotel), WWC ordered some shot glasses that light up when liquid is poured into them. I’m picking them up on Wednesday (May 2nd). As the one who arranged these, I think I may steal a few to give at the mmmmmeet up.

As everyone saw, the Ambassador of Deadpan is going to the MMMmmmeetup. Im picking her up at the airport. Should I arrive with a giant sign, balloons , & have a clown with a spider monkey? Or just play it cool?

It’s something that has been discussed for thirty years. It would be kind of cool to see what the children of the Beatles could come up with. An old work colleague told me about seeing Julian Lennon in concert and at the end of his set he sung a few Beatles songs at the end. According to my friend, he sounded just like his father.

Here I am sitting at the Toronto airport. I know they say to get here two hours early but then you just wait around for an hour and a half before you board the plane. I have things to do. I can read or listen to my iPhone, I just don’t like waiting.

Sorry for the fucktastic day, ditto. Also, sympathies for your dog as we search for someone to come and administer an IV to our elder cat with cancer while we come to the mmmeetup. We love our pets, don’t we?

Helped my sister to retrieve her riding mower from her property (where her house used to be). Two neighbors around her had rebuilt. Nice homes. Still, one year later now, I counted 30 empty slabs in that neighborhood and at least 4 boarded up houses with “no trespassing” signs.

More tornado oddness – Her neighbor reports that about 3 weeks ago the last “destroyed” house in that neighborhood was finally bulldozed to the curb. While she was out walking one evening, she passed the pile and noticed the cushions from a chair of hers, sticking out of the debris. She had salvaged the chair but had never found the cushions. Somehow they had managed to end up in this collapsed house house several blocks away.

I just don’t understand people. I dropped my car off to get the snow tires removed. The train station is a ten minute or less walk from the dealership. Still, people were asking for a ride to the station. I could understand if it was 30 below but it’s actually above freezing today. *shakes head*

Here’s a big complaint about TFAW. I have some subscriptions set up, and they slipped in this month a $79.99 Slip Cased Tank Girl set. I really think that’s a ridiculous thing to include for someone who has a monthly subscription to a series.

Boy this is like Scotland Day around Deadpan. I feel like I should be watching Highlander in a kilt while eating haggis with a single malt and taping stuff to the wall while practicing my bagpipes and offending Ian Shields.

I snagged a great find for my beer bottle collection tonight. I was showing a server my wish list from pintley and she recommended hitachino nest beer 3 days. This beer was brewed in Japan during the earthquake and tsunami. The mashing process took 3 days because of the loss of power. The resulting brew was limited to 8000 bottles. What’s more, it actually tasted great.

I think Cali is a good luck charm. Every time we bring her the Coyotes win. I was pretty sleepy when I woke up this morning, but Teresa was mumbling something about season tickets for next year. (fingers crossed)

Maid in Manhattan is a romantic comedy about a lower class girl getting together high class guy with the girl’s parent and the guys servant disapproving. So essentially it was Arthur without the booze or the comedy. The good news is that Arthur is also available on Netflix instant watch, so I can share that movie with my daughter tonight and get the bad taste of Maid in Manhattan out of my head. Woo hoo!

BTW, I boycott all remakes/reimaginings/reenvisionings/revisitings/etc. So the Dudley Moore Arthur (and the Dudley Moore, Peter Cooke Bedazzled for that matter) is the only version worth watching. There is no discussion on this topic. It is fact rather than opinion.

Correction: In Arthur, the dad was extremely approving of the relationship. Whereas, in Maid in Manhattan the mom was disapproving. I guess they are completely different movies. I don’t know what I was thinking. But I’m still watching Arthur tonight.

Ess, I can relate. The reason I went for training last week is because there was a whole whack of layoffs at my company so some of us had to take up the jobs other people did. Hubby’s not happy as we’re not sure how my body will react to a full time job.